Creophilus maxillosus villosus ( Gravenhorst, 1802 )

Majka, Christopher & Klimaszewski, Jan, 2008, Adventive Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: further contributions, ZooKeys 2 (2), pp. 151-174 : 163

Creophilus maxillosus villosus ( Gravenhorst, 1802)

Creophilus maxillosus (Linnaeus, 1758) has been treated as an adventive species ( Majka and Klimaszewski 2008). Newton et al. (2000), however, pointed out that most North American specimens, often treated as the subspecies C. maxillosus villosus ( Gravenhorst, 1802) , are distinguishable from the Palaearctic C. m. maxillosus . Creophilus m. villosus has a broad pre-human North American distribution, and hence can be considered a native, Nearctic subspecies. Consequently we remove C. maxillosus from the list of adventive species of the region.